The centrist Czech political parties that like to call themselves “democratic” and the business interests behind them have underestimated Andrej Babiš every step of the way. In panic, they overplayed their hand in the 2017 election campaign, thinking that an anti-Babiš platform would prevail. The result was an overwhelming ANO victory in Oct. 2017, ...
The Pirates party has said that it would not tolerate a government without confidence ruling the country for a longer period and would file a complaint with the Constitutional Court. Party leader Ivan Bartoš made the statement in response to President Zeman’s words that a government without confidence was better than early elections. The ...
Former prime minister Mirek Topolánek failed to register a campaign account by Tuesday in line with filing his bid to run in the upcoming presidential election, Czech Radio reported Friday, adding the account created later was non-transparent. Mr Topolánek unexpectedly announced his decision to run for president last Sunday and secured signatures from 10 ...
The speaker of the last Chamber of Deputies, Jan Hamáček of the Social Democrats, has called the first meeting of the new one. MPs elected last month will, as expected, meet for a constituent session of the lower house on Monday November 20 from 13:00. President Miloš Zeman had already announced that date for the ...
The following article was originally published by Anna Nemtsov in the Daily Beast: Russian President Vladimir Putin has some key allies in the European Union. In some countries, they are outliers, even fringe elements. In some, like France and the Netherlands, they made impressive bids for power before, finally, they failed. But in Hungary, ...
A host of pro-western candidates met Tuesday’s deadline to run for Czech president, seeking to unseat incumbent Milos Zeman who has leaned toward Russia and China. Czech presidents wield limited day-to-day power but have large informal influence and play a key role in forming governments – now under way following elections last month. The winner ...
Czech retail sales growth accelerated for the second straight month in September, figures from the Czech Statistical Office showed Monday. Retail sales, excluding automobile trade advanced an unadjusted 6.2 percent year-over-year in September, faster than the 4.8 percent rise in August. Retail trade of automotive fuel alone grew 5.2 percent annually in September, while sales ...
Investor Daniel Kretinsky, the majority owner of central European energy group EPH, is near a deal to buy Czech bus and rail car manufacturer Skoda Transportation, a source with knowledge of the talks said on Friday. The deal is not yet finalised, the source said, confirming Czech media reports. The source said that Kretinsky, ...
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